Digital Life

Zoep - A Free Phone for Firefox

Thilak — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:10:04 +0000

Zoep, an Internet Telephony service, have released Zoep Browser Phone for Firefox users. Zoep Phone is a Firefox addon that lets you make free calls to other Zoep users from your Firefox browser.

PC to PC calls are free and like other popular services there is a pre-pay PC to Phone option. Zoep can communicate with other open Jabber based services like Google Talk for Instant Messaging.

Zoep Firefox extension is currently for Windows only and requires Firefox version 1.5. Voice-mail, SMS and an inbound phone number to accept incoming calls from landlines or mobile phones are expected in future versios of Zoep.

Zoep Website
Install the extension
Source of this info

Yahoo! to Google: We Surrender

Thilak — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:08:34 +0000

In the battle to be the number one search engine Yahoo!, it seems, has officially capitulated to the Google Empire. Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker said: “We don’t think it’s reasonable to assume we’re going to gain a lot of share from Google.” “It’s not our goal to be No. 1 in Internet search. We would be very […]

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Twin Mars rovers STILL exploring after TWO YEARS instead of 90 days!

Thilak — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:07:12 +0000

With a longevity unthinkable even to the humans that built them, NASA’s remarkable Mars rovers remain hard at work after two years on the Red Planet’s surface. Spirit and Opportunity have driven a collective eight miles and beaming home pictures by the tens of thousands of never-before-seen territory and breath-taking vistas.

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Opera Mini

Thilak — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:05:47 +0000

Opera Mini is a free Mobile Browser, runs on any phone capable of running Java mobile applications and using an GPRS; Depending on how we get Opera Mini, our provider may charge us for the actual download. I prefer to download it from wap.getjar.com. You also install it from the PC. When surfing with Opera Mini, Web pages are optimized and compressed before being sent to our phone This means that even though our mobile provider may charge us for the data which is transferred to our phone, the amount of data transferred is significantly less than it would normally be, making mobile surfing cheaper. >>

Stop Badware Coalition.

Thilak — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:01:55 +0000

Google, Lenovo, Sun Microsystems have banned together to create the Stop Badware Coalition, at stopbadware.org. This just a few weeks after members of the Anti-Spyware Coalition had agreed on the methods for identifying and fighting spyware

Vista Beta 2 to Release in April

Thilak — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:00:17 +0000

Microsoft is planning to ship Windows Vista Beta 2 sometime in April. According to Bink.nu, a blog focused on Microsoft products, Microsoft will release a Community Technology Preview (CTP), on Feb. 21, with Beta 2 set for release in April. We have no idea when in April Beta 2 will be released. Beta 2 was planned to be released before 2006, however, it was announced that Microsoft would be pushing the date back into April. No features of Beta 2 have been announced.

China to build world’s first “artificial sun” experimental device

Thilak — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:43:55 +0000

A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China’s Anhui Province.

Experiments with the advanced new device will start in July or August. If the experiments prove successful, China will become the first country in the world to build a full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, nicknamed “artificial sun” >>

AMD Hits 21.4% Market Share

Thilak — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:39:48 +0000

Regardless whether you are an Intel fan or an AMD fan, you have to tip your hat to AMD for snagging over 21% market share in the last quarter.

AMD now accounts for 21.4 percent of all desktop, notebook and server processors using the x86 instruction set that were shipped during the fourth quarter, Mercury Research plans to announce next week. The chipmaker’s share grew from 17.7 percent in the third quarter, on strong gains in all three of those segments.

Nokia Secret Codes

Thilak — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:33:41 +0000

To See IMEI Number : Press *#06# in Idle mode.

Pressing *#0000# will take you to a special display which shows…

1. Software Version
2. Some Date (Most probably the date of software release)
3. ??

The x# Trick

By pressing x# (where x is any number upto 100) will show the telephone number stored in location x. For example, pressing 5# in idle mode will show the 5th number you stored when you entered the numbers in your phone-book.

Pressing *#92702689# will take you to a new menu with 6 options :

1. Serial Number Of Your Phone.
2. Month And Year Of Manufacture (In format MMYY).
3. Purchasing date. You can only set this once.
4. Enables phone for data transfer if you have all the necessary equipment.
5. Life Timer - ??

To exit the menu, switch off the phone and then back on.

Special Character Trick

While composing an SMS, you would often require to key in some special characters. The entire list of available characters is made available by pressing and holding the * key. Further, you can go down directly instead of going horizontally by pressing #.

Why does Google own 466453.com

Thilak — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:24:19 +0000

An other whacky thread at DigitalPoint forums named Why does google own this domain? Some member must of randomly typed in http://www.466453.com/ and ended up at a Google page.

Its very interesting, don’t you think?
The answer: Take a look at your telephone keypad, and match up the numbers to the letters.

4 GHI
6MNO
6 MNO
4 GHI
5 JKL
3 DEF